Hydraulic lime is obtained from limestone or kankar, containing a very small %age of free sand and soluble silica combined with 10-39% of clay and magnesium carbonate. It also contains CaCO3. These components impart the property of Hydraulicity to lime. Hydraulic lime slakes very slowly (sometimes taking several hours even days to do so) without producing

Technical writing is an important part of everyone's career. Writing well is difficult and time consuming and writing in a technical way about technical subjects even makes it more difficult. People write to propose projects, to document their own actions, to help other understand the research, to analyze and solve problems, to describe procedures and objects. If done well

A tech. report can be used for the physical description of a new machine, the steps in a particular process, or the results of an experiment. For example; A writer not only describes two sites for a factory but also persuades readers to accept one of them as the best i.e. to prove your point. The document that achieves these purposes is called technical writing.

A document which persuades its readers to accept the writer's idea is called a proposal. The RFP asks for both a technical proposal and a cost proposal. There are two kinds of proposals. In external proposal, one firm responds to a request from another firm on the government for a solution to a problem. It ranges from lengthy (100 pages or more) to a short (4-5 pages). In an

Progress reports inform management about the status of the project. It is submitted at regular intervals throughout the life of the project. It lets the reader know whether work is progressing satisfactorily, that is within the project’s budget and time limitations. Most readers are not fully informed about all aspects of the project. To understand the progress made to date